the communist senator Oscar Andrade said this Thursday before a base committee that in the defeat of the referendum against the Urgent Consideration Law (LUC) there were things that “one cannot believe”, among them that “25 thousand gurises processed the credential and could not vote” because the Electoral Court “delayed the voter registration”.
Within the framework of the Base Committee Day, Andrade was reviewing how the left embarked on the collection of signatures, and maintained that this vote was lost “by millimeters” and that one can even speak of a kind of tie.
But in addition to the narrow difference, the communist senator suggested that there were foreign elements that influenced the defeat.
“Because there are things that happened to us that one cannot believe that they have happened to us; 25 thousand gurises processed the credential and could not vote. With the credential processed since June of the previous year. The Court delayed the padrón… that ‘I don’t have time’, that ‘I’ll go further’. Bo, that can’t happen to us in 2024 because if we don’t we deserve to lose. In a strip where 70% voted pink, the first voters,” Martín Fierro told the base committee.
The census of the election from March 27 closed on December 8, 2021 because it was the day the Electoral Court confirmed that there were enough signatures to call the referendum.
According to the final count, the No ballot obtained 1,108,360 adhesions (50.02% of the valid votes) against 1,078,425 of the Yes (48.67%), a difference of 29,935 to which the 29,119 blank votes are added.
Andrade also referred to the people who could not go to the voting centers. “There was a ton of people we couldn’t move. It happened to all of us in the neighborhoods. You arrived and they told you: I and my wife vote in Flores, and I have two girls who have to travel, but I don’t have a peso. In some committees they organized ballots, in some we were late, “he said.
“We have to go out and discuss, because there were people who voted in the referendum, (…) that we lost by millimeters. That we lost it more than they won it,” the senator added.
